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The problems with which I intend to deal in my paper attain significance only within Husserl’s belief that, despite all trends to the contrary, philosophy still is, or ought to be, a recte vivendi ratio, that is, must concern itself with the basic issues of the human condition — with what it means to be a human being and to live a humanly satisfying life. This point of view leads directly to a phenomenology of value; for we encounter values, wherever we define ourselves as human beings, only in our commitment to values, without which the human being would not be human. Now, fifty years after Husserl’s death, his phenomenological approach is still alive and helpful in our understanding of values. That is why the contemporary value of phenomenology implies the phenomenology of value.
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Emmanuel Lévinas, “Beyond Intentionality,” in Philosophy in France Today, A. Montefiore (ed.) ( Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983 ), p. 101.
Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, “First Principles of the Metaphysics of Life Charting the Human Condition: Man’s Creative Act and the Origin of Rationalities,” in Analecta Husserliana, Vol. XXI, A-T. Tymieniecka (ed.) ( Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Co., 1986 ), p. 52.
Edmund Husserl, Formale und transzendentale Logik (Halle, 1929), p. 5.
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Roman Ingarden, “Betrachtungen Problem der Objektivität,” in Zeitschrift für philosophische Forschung, 1967. Richard Rorty too says that a distinction should be made between “objectivity as correspondence and as argument.” (Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature, Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1980, p. 333 ).
Hilary Putnam, Reason, Truth and History ( Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982 ), pp. 135–149.
I shall resume ideas and arguments from my paper “The Life-World and the Axiological Approach in Ethics,” in Analecta Husserliana, Vol. XXII, A-T. Tymieniecka (ed.) (Dordrecht: D. Reidel, 1987), pp. 287–296.
Louis Lavelle, Traité des valeurs ( Paris: P.U.F., 1951 ), p. 529.
Edmund Husserl, Manuscript F.I., p. 183; apud Alois Roth op. cit., pp. 9, 15, 32, 43.
His views meets, mutatis mutandis, that expressed by K. Marx, for whom the relationship is accomplished on the basis of criteria “historically and socially conditioned by praxis” (Works, vol. 19, Bucharest, Politica Publishing House, 1964 ), p. 392.
Cf. Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, “The Creative Self and the Other in Man’s Self- Interpretation,” in Analecta Husserliana, Vol. VI ( Dordrecht: D. Reidei Publishing Co., 1977 ).
Edmund Husserl, Die Krisis der europäischen Wissenschaften und die transzendentale Phänomenologie, in Husserliana, VI, p. 329.
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Grünberg, L. (1990). The Phenomenology of Value and the Value of Phenomenology. In: Tymieniecka, AT. (eds) The Moral Sense and Its Foundational Significance: Self, Person, Historicity, Community. Analecta Husserliana, vol 31. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-0555-9_18
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